A review by kshertz
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon

informative medium-paced

3.5

It was informative! I learned a lot about her personal story and she connected it often to literature and how these books and authors who spoke about suicidal thoughts and depression really helped her understand herself in a way that the people she was seeing in the psych ward were never able to do. I found it interesting with her take on medications with again the realization that it’s all pretty much testing to see what does and doesn’t work as opposed to an exact science. Overall I wasn’t sure it added much to the conversation that I didn’t already know but I felt like it was poignant just to hear her story and get perspective specifically about being committed in the 1990s and coming out and still trying to go to college, have a relationship and raise a child. 
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